Europa League Lyon and Lazio held; Valencia, Sevilla and Fiorentina win

Valencia, Sevilla and Fiorentina claimed victories in the Europa League on Thursday, but Lyon and Lazio could only draw.

In Group B, the leaders are Ludogorets, who continued their impressive start with a comprehensive 3-0 victory at home to Dinamo Zagreb. The Bulgarian champions caused a shock by winning away at PSV Eindhoven in their Group B opener and looked equally assured here as goals from Juninho Quixada, Virgil Misidjan and Svetoslav Dyakov saw them to all three points. PSV defeated Chornomorets 2-0 away, with Memphis Depay opening the scoring before Florian Jozefzoon wrapped up the win with a late strike. A brace from Alan helped Salzburg clinch a 2-1 victory at Esbjerg as the Austrian Bundesliga leaders took a firm grasp on Group C. Alan struck twice in the first half to put the visitors on course for their second win of the competition, with Pape Diouf's reply coming too late for Esbjerg. Elfsborg and Standard Liege both got off the mark in the same group after playing out a 1-1 draw at the Boras Arena. The hosts went ahead in the 23rd minute through Viktor Claesson's curling effort and Standard were level just after the hour mark thanks to a left-footed finish by Geoffrey Mujangi Bia. Fiorentina, top of Group E, won 2-1 at Dnipro, the Italians finishing the game with 10 men after David Pizarro was sent off four minutes from time. Gonzalo Rodriguez put them ahead from the penalty spot before Yevhen Seleznyov converted a spot-kick to equalise, with Massimo Ambrosini then scoring the winner in the 73rd minute. Elsewhere in the pool, Pacos Ferreira drew 1-1 at home with Pandurii Targu-Jiu, who had taken a fifth-minute lead through Marko Momcilovic before Rui Miguel's strike ensured the hosts avoided a surprise defeat. In Group F, table-toppers Eintracht Frankfurt have a 100% record after two games following their 3-0 win at Apoel Nicosia, in which there was an own-goal by Nektarios Alexandrou and second-half goals from Srdjan Lakic and Sebastian Jung. Second-placed Maccabi Tel-Aviv were 2-1 victors at Bordeaux, falling behind to Jussie's goal early in the second half before Barach Yitzhaki and substitute Dor Micha turned the game around.